The Forrest City times., 1887-10-22

Now More Than Ever.
 BEooK IN, N. r., Oct 9-The audience at Brooklyn tabernacle this autumn are larger than at any time during the history of this church, and greater numbers go away not able to get To. Led by cornct and organ the con grega,Ion sang with great power the hymni
 The morning ghts are breakinx
 - The darkness disappears
 The sons nf men are waking
 To penlitntial tesrs
 The Rev T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D.. read and explained passages Of Scripture concern. ing the dawn ol universal righteousness. The subject Of his sermon was "Unocupled Fields g and the text from Rsmsns, xv., 9: "Lest 1 should build uron another mans foundation" pn 1almage said;
 Stirring reports come from all parts of America showing what greet work the churches of God are doing, and congra ulate them and their pastors. Misapprehensons have been going the rounds, saying that the outside bcuevoleuces of ;his particular church are neglected. when tue fact Is that large sums Of monty are being raised in various ways by ihis ehareh for Al styles of good objects not always through the boards of our own denom- nation. This church was built by all denomi- hasious Of Christians and by many sections of this land aud other lands, and that obligation has led us 10 raise money for many objects mol connected with our denomination, and this accounts for the fact that we have not regu- larly contributed to all the boards commend. ed.
 coon WORK IN THE CHURCH.
 But i rejoice lu that you have done as a church magniheentwnrk and am grateful that We have received during the year by the confession of faith fn Christ 795 souls, which fact l mention not In boastng but n defense Ot this church. showing 1t hos been neither idle nor inefficient The most of cur access sions have been ffoIt the outside world SO that, taking the idea Of my text, we have not been building on other peoples foundations.
 In laying Out the pan Di his missionary tour Paul sought out towns and cities which had Det yet been preached to. He goes to Cornih, city mentioned fuf spendUr and vice, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and the Sanhedrim we're resdy to leap with both feet upon the christian religion. He feele he has especial Work 10 do, and he means to do it. What was the result The grandest life of usefulness that man ever lived! We modern Christian workers arg Got apt c. initiate Paul. We build On other peoples foundations If we erect church We prefer to have it filled witd ianii cs all of whom have been plous. Do We gather Sabbath school class, we want good boys and girls. hair eombod, faces washed, manners attractive. So a church in this Way is apt tp be built out of other churches Some ministers spend all their time III fishing h other people's ponds, and they throw the iiue into that church pond aud lerk out Method st and throw the line into an other church pond and bring out a Presby- tcilan ar there Is q Tel gious row in some neg ghS3ring church aud whole school of fish swim of from that pond aud we take them all iu with one sweep of the net What is gaiHedt Absolutely nothing for the gen erai cause of Christ.
 ONLY NEW RECRUITS WAVED
 IL is only as in an nrnY, when a regiment is transferred rom one division to another. from the, Tennessee to the Potomac. What strengthens the army is new recruits. What l haFe always desired IS that while we are caur cons tO those coming from other H0clls, we build our churehea not out Of other churches, but out uf the world, less we build on another mu's foundation. The fact is lhs is big world. Whcn in OUT schoolbny days we learned tha diameter aud clrcumier- cnce of this planet, we did not learn half It Is The latitude and longitude and Il nmeter and circumference Of want and woe and sin that no ieures can calculate. This one spiritual continent Of WIelchedness reaches across ali Zones, and 1T l We're called to g.ye it's geo graphical boundary, | would say 1t is h0uud el on tbe north aud south and east and west ny tbe great heart Of Gods sympathy and love o, it is tue grept world. Since o'clock this mulning ta,et0 tefs0us have teen born and aa iIpse Iglitttped populations arc to be reach he'd of the gospel. ln England, or in our eastern American cities We are being much crowded, uud an acre oi ground Is Of great val ue, but out west jOl acres is a small farm, and Sb,tA1 acres iS uu unusual possession There ls1t vast Held here a4ld everywhere unoccupled, p'ents uI ruum more, not building ou another man fouu.i4tti0u.
 WHAT TIE CHURCHES NrrW
 Me need Ns ruUTtliPs iD sfgft ll ina nry the oiel ironc.ad sinners that have been proof against th rN years Of Christian assault Alas for that chufcu which lacks the spirit of eFangelism spending on one chandelier enough Co iight dJQ souls tO glory, and on one carved pillar enough to have made i, ,0UO men pillars in he house of our God forever" and doing les good hnn many lug cabin meet lug house With tallow candles stuck in wooden sockets, and a minister who has never seen college or known the difference between Greek sn Choctaw. We need as churches to get Into sympathy with the great outside world; and ict Hem know hat none are SD broken hearted or hard bestead that will not be welcomed. Mop says some fastidious Chris. ian. "l don't like To be crowded in church Don't put any enc in ny pew Ny brother what will AOa dc ip hcaycui Naen great mu iiiule tbal no man can number assemblies They Wil rnt ty 10 NUur Urw What are the select few Co day assembled ia ihc Chris tHu churches compared with the inighticr millions outsi ,e ot tt"u, SN,GJ0 n Brooklyn, NHttit in tue Churche~f Many 0l Inc ehafehes are like hosp al that sh0uld advcr. Use that lis patients must have nothing worse than tnolhache or ''mn.iuuuls.n but no bro ken heads, no crushed auklcs no fractured thlghs, Give us for treatment moderate sim hcfs, Velvet coated sinners and sinners with g glpsS ou- lt Is as though a man had a farm oi 3HN acres and put eti his work on one acre He may raise never SD large ears of efn, never so hg ears of wheat he would remain pn0r The church ot God has be- stowcd lis chief care on one acre. and has raised splenaid men and W0meu ia that small enclosure, bat the field is thc world. That mems North and Spuih Amer ca, Europe Asia and Africa saA all the islands Of the sea
 LTTr DEs TO BE SAVED.
 II Is as though after a great battle there were 5000 wounded and ing on the field, and three surgeons gave ah their time to ihree patients under thcr cA1ige The major Bspegal comes ia and says tD the doctors: Come cut here and book at the nearly D. 01J dying for lack of surgical attendance "Non say the three doctors, standing there flaming tAeIr iatients, tWt have three important eases here and we are attending to them, and when We are not positively busy with their wounds it takes al. eur lime Co keep the flies olf. 70 In th s awful battle Of siu and sorrow, where millions haye fallen on millions, do not let us spcuf al our time in tuking care of few people and when the command comes: ''Go tnto the wor,d, say practisalY; No cannot go; have s few choice eases, and am busy keeping of Che flies" Thcre are multi iudes to-day who have never had any Chris tian worker look them ln the eve. and with earnestnoss in the acceutUatiOB. say. Come r' CT they would long ago have been iu the king dom Ny friends, religion is @ tler a sham or a ;remcpduOus reality. 1T t be a sham, let Us disband our churches and Christian asso- ciaiions II it he reality, then great popu- lations are ou their way to the bar of God united for the ordeal, aud what are we do- ingl In order Co reach the mutt tuie of out silers We must drop all techuicslities out of our religion When we talk Co people about the hypustatic union and French encyeloped- ianisin, and krastiniau sm, aud C0mpluten- slsuism, we are as impolitc and little under stood as it a physician should talk to an or dnary patient about tho perlcariiam and intercostal muscle, aud seorbutic symptoms.
 ONLY ONE GHEAr FACT
 Many of us come out of the theological sem inaries SO loaded up that we take the first ten years 70 show our people how much we know, and the next ten years to get our people 10 know as much as VIC know, aud st the eud find that neither of Us know anything as We ought to kGow Here are hundreds snd thousands of sinning. struggling aud dying people who